Melissa is one of the 16 National Research Foundation (NRF) fellows for 2013. The fellowship comes with a total of S$3.6 million (US$3 million) funding including indirect costs, for 5 years. The press release is here.

Towards personalized cancer genomics

The long-term goal of our research on chromatin interactions and transcription is to contribute to the future of clinical personal cancer sequencing, and lay foundational knowledge for the development of new drugs and biomarkers in gastric cancer and blood cancers.